Newcastle defender accused of bringing people out in a ‘cold sweat’

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Former Middlesbrough striker Kris Boyd is the latest lining up to have a go at Newcastle defender Grant Hanley.

The United centre-back is likely to line up for Scotland at Wembley tonight but Boyd says ‘No harm to Grant Hanley but I’m fed up seeing him make the same mistakes’ for his country.

Newcastle United have won the last seven matches the Scottish international has been involved in (since defeat at Fulham on opening day) but there seems to be a groundswell of pundits over the border, who are wanting to make him a scapegoat.

Picking Hanley out as the prime example, Kris Boyd says that the level of defenders available to Scotland brings him out in a ‘cold sweat’.

It is a reality that Gordon Strachan’s current first choice centre-half pairing are a Championship one, with Norwich’s Russell Martin partnering Newcastle’s Grant Hanley.

However, surely this is reflected right throughout the Scottish squad/team, which is almost entirely made up of Championship/lower Premier League players, or even worse, players who are still playing in the Scottish Premier League – which must be the equivalent of League One in England at best.